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Maybe the Russians should change the name of its airline … AeroFlop ?
Maybe the Russians should change the name of its airline … AeroFlop ?
Good - sanctions are a slow game, but they do have effects eventually.
Russia is scrambling to return retired airliners to service and finish new ones, including replace ‘western’ components with Russian ones including engines.
It has much air travel within the vast country.
Several governments have seized or frozen literally hundreds of billions worth of Russian assets. Those assets should be used to pay the aircraft leasing companies for the planes Russia has stolen or impounded. Simple solution but probably complicated. The same should go for all the destruction of Ukrainian property.
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Yes.
But it requires complete defeat of Russia in some way, preferably explicit recognition by it that its society erred.
Otherwise aggressive ambitions and blaming others will continue, as it did in Weimar Germany after WWI, which fostered the rise of Nationalsozialistiche leading to WWII.
Russia never had a partially democratic society - Marxists shot the first elected legislative assembly as the Czar began to relax. Putin comes out of Marxism in action - he was a KGB official, whose activities included false-flag terrorism. He is obsessed with his version of history which is to take back former USSR pieces like Ukraine.
CC’s airline safety record is not bad, I gather.
They have been keeping some pressure on Russia over the war on Ukraine, recently some surprising strong statements against the war, perhaps to mollify US on trade.
While they sabre rattle against Taiwan and everyone around seas in the area.